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The Klassiki Podcast — 72 episodes
Locarno 2026 festival report: Florin Șerban, Isabelle Stever, Natalka Vorozhbyt
Films of the forest, from Tarkovsky to Kurosawa
Mark Cousins tells the story of documentary film
The most important art: Ian Christie’s journey through late Soviet cinema
Otar Iosseliani’s fables of modern life
BONUS: Golden Apricot festival report
Unravelling the twisted crime films of Corneliu Porumboiu
The Klassiki Kino Club: Tough Kids
Beyond Mr Nobody: documentary under Putin
Boris Barnet: poet of the outskirts
Valeska Grisebach returns with The Dreamed Adventure
The moral maze of Krzysztof Kieślowski’s Dekalog
Artavazd Pelechian: poetry at a distance
The Klassiki Kino Club: Getting to Know the Big Wide World
Peter Strickland heads back to the East
The Czechoslovak New Wave and beyond
To dance is to resist: queer life in wartime Ukraine
Building film culture in Uzbekistan
100 years of Andrzej Wajda
Roman Bondarchuk’s Ukrainian badlands
Sergei Parajanov in love and war
Rewriting history in Aleksandr Askoldov’s Commissar
The Klassiki Kino Club: An Unusual Exhibition
Deciphering The Saragossa Manuscript
Lucian Pintilie: godfather of the Romanian New Wave
Eastern notions: celebrating Ali Khamraev
Julia Loktev on My Undesirable Friends: Part One – Last Air in Moscow
The Klassiki Kino Club: The Return of the Projectionist
Horror behind the Iron Curtain
Mother Teresa and Persian poetry at the London Film Festival
The Strugatsky Brothers on screen
Cinema of the Donbas
From Shakespeare to Solaris: the otherworldly career of Jüri Järvet
Film at the end of the world, with Ben Rivers
The Klassiki Kino Club: Andrzej Munk’s Eroica
Béla Tarr, Hungary’s maestro of melancholy
One hundred years of Marlen Khutsiev
Rolands Kalniņš: riding the Baltic New Wave with “Latvia’s Godard”
The Klassiki Kino Club: István Szabó’s Confidence
Romania before the New Wave
From Rossellini to Dracula: Radu Jude in Transylvania
Eastern European film past, present, and future
Caught by the night: the gothic visions of Juraj Herz
The Shards: Russia on the edge
Jonas Mekas: a Lithuanian abroad
Under the Grey Sky: inside the crisis in Belarus
The long, strange trips of Wojciech Jerzy Has
Ester Krumbachová: the ghost of the Czech New Wave
The war-haunted world of Larisa Shepitko
Pressburger: the Hungarian heart of British film
In the studio with animation legends the Quay Brothers
From Cranes to Cuba: how Kalatozov and Urusevsky reinvented Soviet cinema
Shooting through tragedy: Shoghakat Vardanyan on 1489
One hundred years of Sergei Parajanov
Eisenstein and Ivan the Terrible today
The lonely voice of Aleksandr Sokurov
Poland in the 80s, from Wajda to Kieślowski
Dea Kulumbegashvili and Petar Valchanov at the London Film Festival
The footballing fantasies of Sandro Koberidze
Under the Volcano: Damian Kocur reimagines the Ukraine war drama
Prefab pictures: cinema of the tower block with Owen Hatherley
Yuliya Solntseva: the forgotten queen of Soviet film
The fight for the future of Georgian film
Springtime for Soviet cinema: the films of the Thaw
Żuławski, Parajanov, and me: adventures in Eastern Europe with Dan Bird
The humanism and surrealism of the Czech New Wave
Agnieszka Holland on her urgent and politically charged refugee drama Green Border
Behind the scenes of the Romanian New Wave with Ada Solomon
From Toronto to Ararat: Atom Egoyan on his career in the Armenian diaspora
Ian Christie on Eccentrism, the forgotten mavericks of the Soviet avant-garde
Radu Jude on TikTok and the future of film
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